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Collibra Governance vs erwin Data Intelligence comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 19, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.9
Collibra Governance enhances efficiency and transformation, though legacy systems delay financial institutions from realizing full benefits immediately.
Sentiment score
6.4
Erwin Data Intelligence improved productivity, reduced costs, and accelerated project delivery through efficient data management and cloud-based implementation.
If I consider putting data governance in place without a tool like this, it's difficult, resulting in a significant cost improvement.
Implementing Collibra Data Catalog can be cost-effective if its features align well with the business requirements.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.9
Collibra Governance's customer service is knowledgeable, but complex issues sometimes face delays and require escalation or follow-ups.
Sentiment score
8.6
Erwin Data Intelligence's customer support is knowledgeable and accommodating but occasionally experiences delays despite high user ratings.
The technical support from Collibra Governance is excellent.
Technical support is effective in providing solutions.
The technical support is quite good.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Collibra Governance is highly scalable and integrates metadata well, ideal for medium to large enterprises, focusing on configuration.
Sentiment score
8.0
Erwin Data Intelligence offers scalability, connecting multiple data sources, with potential for growth despite performance slowing with large datasets.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Collibra Governance is stable and reliable, scoring highly despite minor glitches, excelling in both on-premises and cloud deployments.
Sentiment score
8.2
Erwin Data Intelligence is stable and reliable, with minimal issues mostly due to platform constraints rather than the tool.
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Room For Improvement

Collibra Governance needs improved connectors, UI, integration, search, automation, pricing, scalability, training, and technical support.
Erwin Data Intelligence needs improvements in usability, customization, compatibility, AI support, and performance for large datasets.
There should be a reduction in cost as compared to other tools.
Collibra's data quality feature only provides observations on data quality without any remediation techniques.
It struggles to catalog all categories of data, particularly sensitive data on-prem, which GCP Data Catalog handles better.
 

Setup Cost

Collibra Governance is expensive, favoring large organizations, with high initial costs and additional fees for specific modules.
Enterprise buyers find erwin Data Intelligence pricing competitive despite high per-user and infrastructure costs, especially for large organizations.
It is neither extremely costly nor very cheap, as it depends on the use case and specific requirements.
Regarding licensing, I find it is one of the more expensive options, so it is not particularly affordable.
Collibra has high initial costs for licensing that can be a barrier to small and medium-sized companies starting with it.
 

Valuable Features

Collibra Governance enhances data management with features like data lineage, integration, metadata support, automation, and comprehensive data governance tools.
Erwin Data Intelligence offers automation scripting, data lineage, customizable metadata, and seamless technology integration with an intuitive interface.
My experience with Collibra's collaboration tools in improving data literacy has been quite good. I think it is one of the best for helping people understand and discuss certain data sets and manage workflows.
I find the rule modification and the replication of the rules in Collibra happens very quickly.
The data lineage feature is beneficial for understanding where data is coming from.
 

Categories and Ranking

Collibra Governance
Ranking in Data Governance
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
erwin Data Intelligence
Ranking in Data Governance
28th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
AI Governance (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Collibra Governance is 8.0%, down from 11.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of erwin Data Intelligence is 1.9%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Governance Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Collibra Governance8.0%
erwin Data Intelligence1.9%
Other90.1%
Data Governance
 

Featured Reviews

DeepakArora - PeerSpot reviewer
Enhancing data management with user-friendly features but needs better documentation
We are a customer of Collibra. Collibra Governance is applied in our data management workflows by creating all the business functions separately, maintaining the data sources of those KPIs and everything separately on those businesses Collibra Governance provides ease of use. The portal is…
Roy Pollack - PeerSpot reviewer
The solution provides more profound insights into legacy data movements, lineages, and definitions in the short term.
We have loaded over 300,000 attributes and more than 1000 mappings. The performance is slow, depending on the lineage or search. This is supposed to be fixed in the later versions, but we haven't upgraded yet. The integration with various metadata sources, including erwin Data Modeler, isn't smooth in the current version. It took some experimentation to get things working. We hope this is improved in the newer version. The initial version we used felt awkward because Erwin implemented features from other companies into their offering.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
7%
Computer Software Company
25%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
9%
Non Profit
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise32
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise14
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Collibra Governance?
We use the solution's Data Stewardship part.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Collibra Governance?
The pricing of Collibra Governance is moderate. It is neither extremely costly nor very cheap, as it depends on the use case and specific requirements.
What needs improvement with Collibra Governance?
There is room for improvement in the Collibra Data Catalog regarding data classification and categorization. It struggles to catalog all categories of data, particularly sensitive data on-prem, whi...
Does anyone experience memory usage issues or memory spikes, when using Quest's Data Intelligence Suite?
Definitely. Part of it is that we haven't beefed up our set-up since the PoC, so it's a little underpowered, but even without that, we were told that anything over a certain number of rows in Mappi...
 

Also Known As

Collibra
erwin DG, erwin Data Governance
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Ministry of Economy Science and Innovation, Aspen Insurance, Barry Callebaut, Colt
Oracle, Infosys, GSK, Toyota Motor Sales, HSBC
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